Black Orange – Peter Du’s Blog

Quick Version: Disable PEAPV1 and PEAPV2, they are the culprit preventing the proper connection.

Long Version:

Choose Connection from Settings Menu

Select Access Points

Create A New Access Point

Connection Name: NUSPEAP, Data bearer: Wireless LAN (!), WLAN netw. name: NUS(!), Network status: Hidden(!)

Change WLAN security mode: 802.11x(!)

Change EAP plug-in settings.

Move to PEAP

Enable It

Disable The Rest

Configure PEAP

Select a CA certificate

Select Thawte Premium

Keep the Realm and User Name unchanged

Disable PEAPv1 and PEAPv2(!)

Click Right to move to EAP settings, Disable All but MSCHAPv2

Move to MSCHAPv2

Configure It

Enter User Name (with domain) and Password

Voila, you have a working NUS PEAP connection

Choose Access Points

Browsing Google!

Guy Kawasaki, who is going to Malaysia to give a talk soon, has a good idea on this, but I am not talking about him. He’s Gary Vaynerchuk, interviewed on CNBC on his ideas how he has realized his dream, and how they helped other people.

Estee mentioned in her blog:

Human tends to looks at the negative and remember than they remember good things.

I doubt the validity of this statement in catholic situations, because variations in personality and constant stimulation from the society could alter the course of the human perception and thinking. However, this statement largely reflects the human nature. Up till today, there is no clear theory of the genesis of human race, and I choose to believe God created us. There are also evolutionists believing mankind was evolved from the chimpanzees and their similar races. Despite this disagreement, these thoughts converge into the conclusion that human race starts with more neutral and negative influence and process them in their life span. Let’s take a look from these two perspectives:

1. In the Bible when God first created Adam, God told him to avoid bad things. I read the Bible because I choose to believe in Christ. And words inside the book are precious to me, for they represent the authority from God. Skipping the process how God settled with the world, He created Adam to look after Garden of Eden. The command God gave to Adam is as follows: “(Genesis Chapter 1) [16]You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; [17]but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.” This is a long sentence to read, but can you see that the emphasis is on the second half? God himself remind us more on the things we should not do, so we can remember and choose to avoid them. There are many examples and words in the Bible reflecting this idea of avoiding the wrong. However, the purpose is not to remember these bad things for the sake of remembering or avoiding, it is to Remember the bad things, while always clinging to the hope of blessing and cherish it forever once it comes.
2. Living situation in primeval era was way worse than now. Let’s assume human race evolved across the centuries to gradually acquire the abilities of independent thinking, vocal communication, diverse emotions etc. According to Darwin’s evolution theory, natural selection is the main method in the evolution. The question now is how much died during the course of natural selection? Knowing that various researches show that chimpanzees are the closest species to mankind, and they communicate using gestures instead of words, we can conclude for a long period of time, people do not have language or advanced mind to think independently. Comparing those time when even fire was scarce with current era when medical facility is widely available, the death rate in those times are greatly higher. The lack of recording vehicle as well as language largely limited people’s abilities of passing on information to a large community. When people near to them die from incident or illness, those living around them will suffer the negativity brought by the separation, overcome that experience and live on – avoid the same incident is possible. And this process repeats for most living groups. Most people then learned from negative things, thus wired to avoid the mistakes so that to explore more in their life.

As seen from these two perspectives, the instinct developed in us will cause us to remember bad things more clearly in our mind. We have the ability to take in negative things and convert them into alerts and things to avoid. Still I believe while we are processing the negative, we need moments of blessing and times of victory when we learn to cherish the positive and be more motivated in our lives.

The awesome writer Tim Ferris wrote a book called “The 4-Hour Workweek“, which talks how about how to cut down your time wasters in every day’s life.

Here is not-that-short interview by Robert Scoble.

There is a nice book excerpt on Life Hacker here.

I have read the book once this Month, and I am going to read the book again in one month’s time. Once thing I learnt from the book is the 20/80 percent rule. And one application of that is to find the 20% people which brings 80% of your happiness in your life. And talk to them more often.

Working less brings more opportunities for you to broaden your thinking and expand your vision, for the product of being effective in working is an improvement in amount of free time you have.

However, that does not mean you are able to get away with less effort. “Working Less” sounds deceptive enough as “Working fewer hours with same effort”

The secret of getting more productive through less time of work is to put in more efforts, not less. Why? I think you know the answer

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I think the success of Twitter over Jaiku is not really the technology behind it, or how good the technology is, but the fever of technology that is penetrating into people’s life since the lit of fire. Look, here is one new add-on for your Firefox which allows you to write anything you like without leaving the browser.

is the tool that I personally use to update both my Twitter and Jaiku account, though I love the way Jaiku is gathering information from my blog and flickr’s rss feeds.

My current update for both flickr and twitter account is:
Watching the censorship on Flickr (It actually mentioned Singapore)

Update: it looks like Jaiku is going to roll out a killer app in the coming supernova conference [via mashable]. I am really looking forward to that, Jaiku’s overall performance is great!

Update2: Oh well, here is the video posted to viddler about the new application running on top of Nokia N95. It looks awesome with native phone integration. I so wanted a Nokia phone now.

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Guy Kawasaki talks about The Art of Innovation.

He talks about a total ten points:

1. Make meaning
2. Make mantra
3. Jump to the next curve
4. Roll the DICEE
5. Don’t worry, be crappy
6. Polarize people
7. Let a hundred flowers blossom
8. Churn, baby, churn
9. Niche thyself
10. Follow the 10/20/30 rule

They make you passionate, be it positive or negative, they don’t make you feel neutral.

You should dare polarize people: don’t let people feel what you do is indifferent to all.

His communication style is great, messages are right to the point, and super hilarious Take a look and you’ll love it

Oh, by the way, he wrote this as well Speaking as a Performing Art.

I learnt a lot from that well-written article, and well-spoken keynote, how about you?

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Today (in different time zones) is Google Developer’s day. 
There are only two locations where Google is broadcasting live, one of which in London. Check it out here.

I know we coders..

NASA showed a photo of Mars which contains a whole in it. According to NASA’s explanation, the size of the hole found on the Mars are of the size of a football field. The hole is capable of protecting Martian life

and I don’t understand the joke on the headlines here, can someone explain it to me?

If you can identify colors and love flags around there world Come here and try it out!

Always successful? No Way! How fear of failure destroys success. It talks about:

1. Cultures of perfection
2. Clinging to the past
3. Why high achievers fail
4. Why balance is essential

No errors means no successes either.

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The first time I got to know the name Al Gore was when watching the movie “an inconvenient truth” I got to know this U.S. former vice president. Because of the impact of the movie and the easiness to remember his name, I would always put him name down when playing “Guess Who”.

Only recently, did I discover a video clip on TED. And I love the beginning part on his life after stepping down from the position of vice president – it is genuinely humorous.

Here is a recent video clip from the daily show: Al Gore talks about the current media influence on politics and that he has published a new book called The Assault on Reason.

And Al Gore actually has a video clip about his life, including his mom, wife, and children, which is indeed intriguing for me.

Here comes some fun: “We SHALL DESTROY ALL THE ROBOT!”

And What happens if a giant mirror reflects the sunshine back from pouring directly at the earth

If you are not too bored, and would like to renew your mind by watching something more formal, there is a clip of a TV interview of Al Gore with Chairlie Rose

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